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Hebrew · Strong's H6458

פָּסַל

pasalpaw-sal'

to carve, whether wood or stone

1890 spelling: pâçal

Strong's Dictionary · 1890

to carve, whether wood or stone

Rendered in the KJV as

grave, hew.

  • 6
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 4 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 5
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 6 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 5

  • פְּסָל־2
  • וָאֶפְסֹ֛ל1
  • וַיִּפְסֹ֡ל1
  • וַֽיִּפְסְל֞וּ1
  • פְסָלוֹ֙1

How it is rendered · 5

  • cut out2
  • and he cut out1
  • and I cut out1
  • and they cut [them] to shape1
  • he has carved it1

The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 5

  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular2
  • Hc/Vqw1cs1
  • Hc/Vqw3mp1
  • Hc/Vqw3ms1
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HVqv2ms · 2
  • Hc/Vqw1cs · 1
  • Hc/Vqw3mp · 1
  • Hc/Vqw3ms · 1
  • HVqp3ms/Sp3ms · 1

All 6, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Exodus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Exodus2 occurrences
Deuteronomy2 occurrences
1 Kings1 occurrence
Habakkuk1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0: their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).